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Bookish Histories: Books, Literature, and Commercial Modernity, 1700-1900 (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print)

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Bookish Histories: Books,Literature,and Commercial Modernity,1700-1900 (Palgrave Studies in the Enli

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December 22, 2009 0230222315 978-0230222311
This ground-breaking collection of essays presents a new bookish literary history, which situates questions about books at the intersection of a range of debates about the role of authors and readers, the organization of knowledge, the vogue for collecting, and the impact of overlapping technologies of writing and shifting generic boundaries.
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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (December 22, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0230222315
  • ISBN-13: 978-0230222311
  • Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 0.9 x 8.8 inches
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